Top 100 Quotes About My Inspiration
#1. I get a lot of my inspiration from my family, but I never got to meet my dad's dad.
Guy Fieri
#2. Any new ideas go into PiL. My inspiration is everything that the human being gets up to. I don't listen to any music when I'm in PiL-zone, because influences can poison your well. Otherwise, I listen to anything.
John Lydon
#3. London's where I was brought up. It's where my heart is and where I get my inspiration,
Alexander McQueen
#4. Light is my inspiration. My photographic images search for dimensions that words cannot touch- the result of intense responses to personal experiences. I do not wish to "record," but rather to touch upon the illusive meanings which I perceive and try to comprehend in this limitless universe.
Ruth Bernhard
#5. I don't get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet.
Carolina Herrera
#6. My inspiration was the game itself, not any individual player in it.
Nomar Garciaparra
#7. My inspiration is everything that the human being gets up to.
John Lydon
#8. All the people who'd brought me here, past and present, ancient and young, legend and life and lore, I channeled. I welcomed them into my infinite heart, alongside the ghosts, the shadows, the ache I'd always carry. I made their strength mine, a part of me. My inspiration. My voice.
Sarah Ockler
#9. My inspiration can come from anything - films, the street, paparazzi pictures.
Craig McDean
#10. I love that I have my own business and I can't wait to tell Charlie when she's old enough that I did it all with her as my inspiration.-Carla Palmer, Cheekie Charlie
Holly Hurd
#11. Light is my inspiration, my paint and brush. It is as vital as the model herself. Profoundly significant, it caresses the essential superlative curves and lines. Light I acknowledge as the energy upon which all life on this planet depends.
Ruth Bernhard
#13. Ismat Chugti has been my inspiration, for her patriarchy submerged, womencentric stories. I see and think of women as they would want to be and not how we have been formularized in imaginations." (interview in Beyond Sindh, a HongKong based Sindhi magazine).
Kusum Choppra
#14. yes, i have dated Salvador Dali guy when i was a high school girl. he was a great lover. but i had to dump him because he stole my inspiration of bent clock*~* .... who cares...
Hiroko Sakai
#15. I've always been inspired even more by any naysayers to keep going for what I really want and they've almost been my inspiration many times more so than any positive people around me to conquer.
Christina Aguilera
#16. People often ask where I get my inspiration from, and I always say I have no good answer because, well, inspiration comes from everywhere: people, places, memories.
Richelle Mead
#17. My inspiration comes from the common man and nature.
Kailash Kher
#18. If somebody asked me about my inspiration I would say that it's not the peopleand it's not the things, it's travel and experiencing different environments.
Marc Newson
#19. My inspiration is always what I think my fans want to listen to. I often write about social problems. If I'm not going through it or I haven't gone through it, I want to make sure it touches someone. That's what I base my music on.
Jenni Rivera
#20. The ironies in the commonplace are my inspiration and delight.
Mason Cooley
#21. I never really paid much attention to music that was going on in the UK. I was always looking towards the States for my inspiration.
Albert Lee
#22. I love every part of the book writing process from the excitement of the initial idea to weaving all the tiny elements of the story from the air. I draw my inspiration from the landscape around me, from quirky characters I meet and from the strange and convoluted thoughts that dance between my ears.
JoAnne Graham
#23. I get my inspiration from books, pictures, art. I might find a vintage scarf and say, "I think this should be our color palette."
Jessica Simpson
#24. I'm like our fearless leader [Jesus]. Where do I get my inspiration? I don't know. I just make fun of everything.
Daniel Tosh
#25. As much as I love performing, nothing juices me up creatively like being in my own studio for an extended period. Songs, ideas, even paintings are pouring out of me. My inspiration and usual subject matter: life.
Adrian Belew
#26. MY INSPIRATION FOR THIS LIMITED EDITION DESIGN WAS BASED ON THE LEGACY OF HENNESSY AS A BRAND. TO ME, HENNESSY HAS ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT QUALITY, AUTHENTICITY, TRADITION, AND ELEGANCE.
Shepard Fairey
#27. Thank you, baby, for being my rock, my safe place to land, my inspiration, and my heart. No matter what, snaring you as a husband will always remain my greatest achievement. I love you.
Zathyn Priest
#28. My inspiration always comes from different places. Sometimes it's a piece of music or being in nature or seeing a film or reading a magazine. I find inspiration everywhere.
Marie Forleo
#29. My inspiration comes from my real life experiences.
Lilly Singh
#30. My inspiration is my hometown. I feel that because I'm representing my very overlooked region of Virginia, I have to keep accomplishing my goals to show everyone there that you can truly become whatever you believe with hard work and dedication.
Thomas Jones
#31. Most of my inspiration comes from mistakes, so every time I make a massive mistake, that usually affects me so much that I have to process that via song.
Chet Faker
#32. I get most of my inspiration from older records and older production styles, and that ends up rearing its head in the records that I make.
M. Ward
#33. My inspiration is life. My family, my friends, travelling, books, music, love, food, fashion. What inspires you?
Leighton Meester
#34. You've been my inspiration, through the lies you were the truth. My world is a better place because of you.
Celine Dion
#35. You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my transfiguration and purification. You are my rapscallionly fellow vagabond, my tempter and star. I want you.
George Bernard Shaw
#36. Let my inspiration flow, in token lines suggesting rhythm, that will not forsake me, till my tale is told and done
Robert Hunter
#37. My wife and family, to say the least, are the center of my life; they are my grounding. I don't want to sound schmaltzy, but they are my inspiration and you name it.
Bill De Blasio
#38. I get my inspiration from everyday life, things people my age are going through in life, good and bad experiences.
Manika
#39. Michael Jackson was my inspiration. Love and blessings.
Miley Cyrus
#40. My mom was always my biggest teacher, my inspiration, my role model. My mom was just the most amazing person. She was like a bon vivant in that she just lived each day to the fullest. As soon as I became a vegetarian, she became a vegetarian.
Christie Brinkley
#41. I always dreamt of holding the bat and winning games for India. That was my inspiration to take up cricket.
Virat Kohli
#42. I am getting some good offers still. Some nice things are coming my way just as they always have, so unless I lose my inspiration or there is too much drool to wipe, I will keep going.
Robert Duvall
#43. My wife Ricky is my muse. Her personal style and natural beauty have always been my inspiration.
Ralph Lauren
#44. Picasso has been my inspiration, expressing himself in a hundred different ways.
Robert Lyn Nelson
#45. My inspiration is endless; I can't define it. It is a constant flow and evolution. In general, I'm taking it from everywhere. People get nervous when they walk with me, as I'll see something and suddenly have to text it to myself.
Raf Simons
#46. The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
Ikue Mori
#47. In terms of the organic feel and the love for noises, I definitely feel more connected to Four Tet and Fennesz, as any dance floor artist. I do like some dancey stuff like Martyn when I DJ, but I draw my inspiration from other things.
Apparat
#48. My inspiration is not only based on the theoretical work which is very conservative but also based on the Research work which is very broader aspect, In the state of mind I've learn basic facts from research and i am feeling proud that almost i have completed four researches in my life
Avinash Advani
#49. The sources and research I use for my inspiration aren't your typical sci-fi subjects, but it's really driven by obsession and personal anxiety more than trying to take up the sword and do what's right.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#50. Music is everywhere and in everything! I draw my inspiration from the day to day activities of my life!
Kailash Kher
#51. My daughter, I can't give up because she's watching and she's here and she's waiting for me to be an example. So, between her, myself, and my will, and me pushing myself, that's my inspiration.
Brandy Norwood
#52. I'm an audience member first. My inspiration is still based on hunger. Often, when people try to tell me "nobody wants that story; I'm like bullshit because I want it."
Victoria Mahoney
#53. I will confess that almost all my inspiration has come from one emotion: fear. And terrible dread of the moment when I will finally be exposed as a fraud.
Carol Loomis
#54. Then when I went to Iraq and saw the strength and character the men and women in our military service exhibit every day and their belief in what they're doing, I knew I wanted to get that on film and share it with everyone. They are my inspiration.
Joe Nichols
#55. My inspiration is European fashion. I'm really into Euro fashion, and I also love rock n' roll. That's the mentality that I like to have when I'm dealing with fashion.
Ciara
#56. She is my inspiration. My muse. My obsession.
Amy Plum
#59. I get my inspiration from everyone when I need it and how I need it.
Picabo Street
#60. My inspiration is really very simple: I'm struck by things that I want to know more about. I really do react just as a curious person: who is this person? What's the story behind this situation? Why do people like this or dislike this thing?
Susan Orlean
#61. Groceries became a revelation: the people coming out with bundles of food. It's all like a great ceremony, and the whole drudgery of shopping has become my inspiration.
Corita Kent
#62. The cool thing about designers is they have very specific points of view, and because my inspiration is always changing, it's easy to go, 'This feels right.' But just because I wear fancy dresses on weekends doesn't mean in my heart of hearts I'm not a jeans and T-shirt person.
Brie Larson
#63. I get my inspiration from young stylish girls I see all over my travels.
Olivia Palermo
#64. In 2006, when I had come very close to calling my agent and telling him I needed to take a break, NaNoWriMo was where I found my inspiration again.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#65. The groups, though, were my inspiration way back then. I liked Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers.
Eddie Floyd
#66. MY INSPIRATION has always been Jeanne Calment, a Frenchwoman who smoked and drank every day and died a few years ago at the age of 122. When asked the secret of her longevity, she replied: 'I laugh a lot.' Well you would, wouldn't you.
Victoria Coren Mitchell
#67. When I was younger I saw a movie called 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' with Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Those two actors and that movie was my inspiration to want to be an actor.
Peter Facinelli
#68. I am impressed by the way Annie Kevans captured the different types of beauties that have been my inspiration and my muses from my grandmother to artists like David Bowie and Boy George.
Jean Paul Gaultier
#69. The practice of yoga has been an amazing tool to actually unearth where my inspiration lives inside my body and mind and heart.
Rodney Yee
#70. Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
Viola Davis
#71. My inspiration came from the land, ... and, of course, from Paul Klee ... and the poetics of his paintings.
Renzo Piano
#72. In Europe I couldn't be anything but a black cook working for somebody. My inspiration was to own, to be the chef.
Marcus Samuelsson
#73. I'm horrible at concepts. My life is random and my inspiration is random. But it's all written in a very specific time frame that says a lot about my life at the time.
Oh Land
#74. My brother was always in bands and on the road when I was a kid and he was my inspiration. He never made it with a big band, in fact he never made a record. Here he is fifty-something years old.
Jimmy Chamberlin
#75. My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration.
Mike Myers
#76. I have my own style that happens to be different from everyone else in Hollywood. My inspiration is me.
Avril Lavigne
#77. The Olympics is about bringing the world together and learning how to go through struggles. That's what inspired me before my career and that's been my inspiration ever since I was striving towards the 2008 Games.
David Boudia
#78. I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn't know it existed. It didn't occur to me that anyone would want to curb my inspiration.
Margaret Anderson
#79. My inspiration is my life, what I see happening around me. It can be history and, quite often, plain traditional fairy tales. But I never adapt; I nourish myself with old stories, and then create my own tales.
Michel Ocelot
#80. My inspiration's coming from nature, I love nature and all the expressions, I love art, I love expressions of beauty. It's part of my life, being engaged in the moment.
Rickson Gracie
#82. I start with a beat sheet, which is more of an abbreviated outline. It hits all the major plot points. From there, I move to note cards. But the most important part of my process is my inspiration board.
Kami Garcia
#83. A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
Manolo Blahnik
#84. My parents had a difficult divorce. My dad had to take a backseat for a few years, and my grandfather came in. He was also my inspiration for becoming an actor. I really respected him.
Christian Camargo
#85. Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves.
Shelby Foote
#86. My life. The life I'm living that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experiences.
Fred Durst
#87. I don't really want to be compared to Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan, but I really feel honored and really proud that people actually see me as them or similar to them, and because they are my inspiration for what I have become today. I am really honored that people compare me to those people.
Tony Jaa
#88. I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
Harmony Korine
#89. I first conceived of my far-future setting 'Punktown' in 1980, and though it contains 'punk' in its name, the term 'cyberpunk' hadn't been coined yet. I took my inspiration strictly from punk music.
Jeffrey Thomas
#90. The actors are different, although I didn't set out to be different. My inspiration came from people like Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence and Will Smith. The genre is what it is. My inspiration was drawn from great movies like 48 Hours, Bad Boys and Rush Hour.
Tracy Morgan
#91. I trust in my inspiration, really, and that's difficult because sometimes you would rather be technical. And once you empty your mind, empty your brain, it's really incredible. I'm very caring about things that dash into my brain, and I make sure I don't just clog it.
Yoko Ono
#92. I could take all the cartoons in the tabloid newspapers, but I couldn't take my daughter punching me in the belly and asking why I was so fat. That was my inspiration to lose the weight. And probably the last time anyone hurt my feelings.
Al Sharpton
#93. From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrate something, I didn't want to tell a story. I wanted to show something, I wanted for them to make their own story from what they were seeing.
Abbas Kiarostami
#94. People used to envy me my inspiration. I hate inspiration. It takes you over completely. I could never wait until it passed and I got rid of it.
Henry Miller
#95. I'm trying to write for people my age. And my inspiration over the years has changed dramatically.
John Mellencamp
#97. My parents are my inspiration. Believe it or not, they're my personal coaches. After every game I still call them and get their take on how I played.
Vince Carter
#98. My heart lies in music and acting, however, my inspiration comes from adrenaline rush I get from sports ... and life.
Alexander Ludwig
#99. I take my inspiration for the song writing from little experiences, not even if I've experienced them myself but say if something has made me sad, I will use that emotion. I just use everyday life and write about it.
Pixie Lott
#100. I adore my dad. He's a 78-year-old man and my inspiration.
Shakira
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